Explorer Destroyer

[Dr Unne]

http://explorerdestroyer.com/

This is a bit of Javascript that will nag Internet Explorer users into using Firefox. You can either use it to nag people, or use it to completely block access of your site for IE users. Of course the latter is better, but the former is better than nothing. What's more, you get money from Google each time someone clicks the button and downloads Firefox.

I think EoFF should use this. If we're running ads anyways, why not run ads that also serve a useful and beneficial purpose not only for Sean and EoFF, but for EoFF's users and for the internet in general? I'm sure EoFF runs some kind of templating system for the main site, and I know the MB uses templates where you could ad this code to a single place and probably have it display on every page, so it would be quite easy to implement.

I'm posting this in General Chat rather than in the "talk to staff forum" so that the roar of public approval for this idea will leave the staff NO CHOICE but to implement it. Thank you for your time and attention.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Hmm, how much money we talking here, Unne?

[rubah]

b0b is going to try and keep us in the dark ages 'til Kingdom Come

[Raistlin]

EoFF should use this and put it on Level 3.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Although I'm all for Firefox, what you're suggesting sounds like borderline fascism. That might just be me though.

[Tavrobel]

Before and After is hilarious. And the thing is that there IS a small difference.

The good thing about it is, that it infuriates Microsoft. Sweet.

[Rye]

Even though I don't entirely approve of it, I think it's hilarious.

[crono_logical]

Next step is someone writes software which exploits IE's bugs to forcefully install Firefox onto user's PCs

[ZeZipster]

I'd use it to install Firefox on my friend's and school's computers if it'd help EoFF. I usually install Firefox on whatever computer I use because I flat out can't use IE. I have to have the ability to middle click stuff to open a new tab. Although, IE6 is coming out soon and malignant flaws of IE might not be so horrible when it does.

[Tavrobel]

Next step is someone writes software which exploits IE's bugs to forcefully install Firefox onto user's PCs

That wouldn't be a bug exploit, that would be a vaccine.

[Levian]

It's about time you made another Anti IE thread. It's been 25 days since last time.

[Raistlin]

25 days? It felt like 25 years. We need anti-IE threads once a day.

[Big D]

It sounds a little like hassling and pestering members of the forum, or even general public, who have inferior taste in software.

It puts me in mind of the AA (or AAA, if you prefer) driving around to every internet user's house and slapping "my other car SHOULD BE a Nissan" bumper stickers onto their Hondas - or better yet, removing their distributor - because of a difference of opinion over what's better. Most hard-core internet types probably wouldn't care or understand about the relative positives and negatives of each manufacturer's vehicle, and would probably get pretty irked at being nagged by a bunch of 'car nerds'.

All well and good on someone's own website, but on a place that actually tries to cater to the general surfing game-playing public, it just seems pointlessly uppity and exclusionary.

[Raistlin]

EoFF has ads anyway. Why not just another ad, but this time one that's simple, free, and beneficial for people that click on it?

[Big D]

If it was just another ad, then sure. Just not something that's trying to pester or block users.